#winterswap #litsylove #bookmail
Looked what arrived today! So excited!

#LilliRead #motherandchildconnection
Just loving Lilli‘s philosophical awakening, which makes her miss discussing such matters with her mother.

My mother‘s birthday is November 28th. She died 4years ago at age 92. I am so lucky to have had her for so long. She remained sharp, opinionated, strong,generous, controlling at times,demanding of herself & others. I still miss our talks, our laughs, sharing books, wine, the beach, Cape Cod. ❤️

#Sundaymorning #cofffeesndbooks #Botmbuddyread #NovemberRead
Stealing some time to read before the day gets ahead of me.

#bookreport
Finished both Garden of Lamentations #audiobook & The Scholar this week. #myidealbookclub
November Road: read up ch 28 #botmbuddyread
Lilli de Jong: read up to book 7 #LilliRead
Started Silent Voices: on p. 140 #mysteryoftheweek

#saturday #coffeeandbooks
Continuing this mystery. It‘s cold out there, so snuggling & reading with hubby.

#fridaynight #football #soccer #USAvCanada #Mens #familynight
Book, wine, soccer & pasta coming up. Blissful Friday night.

#MadonnaNovember #Frozen
When Mary Rose and Harold‘s young son died, they lost each other too. Then their cliff house fell into the sea during a storm. They floated on the ocean, and met a new people in a new #frozen land of icebergs and snow. In the process they finally grieved and found their way back to each other.

#bannedbook #GratefulReads
Some of the #bannedbooks my son read in HS.

#LikeaPrayer #MadonnaNovember #PoetryasPrayer #DeniseLevertov

Lovely little book.

#DecemberRoad #botmbuddyread #raiseyourvoice

#NamasteNovember #Sweets

Some treats from my time in Boston. Just got home now. Feeling a little sad; missing my 3 sisters already! ❤️

#quotable #LilliRead #buddyread
“Late night is the playground of despair.” Truth! Lilli is a wonderful human being. ❤️📚

#weeklyforcast #bookreport
📚 November Road on ch. 19 #botmbuddyread
📚Garden of Lamentations 4hrs left #audiobook
📚Lilli de Jong finished parts1-3 #LilliRead
📚The Scholar p.115 #MyIdealBookClub
📚TKAM graphic novel - up to what is comparable in book‘s ch7 This graphic novel has gorgeous illustrations and remains true to plot and necessary quotes. Perfect for struggling readers. #teachersoflitsy
📚StellaFortuna- finished #bookclubpick

#GratefulReads ##bookandsnack #Day9 #LilliRead
I always travel with mini saltines, a favorite snack.

#GratefulReads #bookandbeverage #Day8
The Westin Hotel Boston Waterfront houses a Starbucks. Started my morning with coffee. Later today I plan to venture out in the cold & visit some local coffee shops nearby.

#NamasteNovember #SpinePoem2
I traveled by bus to Boston last night to meet my sister. I have a kindle so I traveled light with these books. So two book spine poetry!
I am so excited! My sister is at a nurse practitioners‘ conference and she invited me to join her until Monday! Lovely hotel near the waterfront. Plan to read today, drink coffee, take a walk, maybe hot tub....☕️🏙📚 The day is wide open.

#NamasteNovember #womenwithclass #Day8
Have not read this yet, but the cover fits.

#Iamthankfulfor #gratitude #thankful
So much in my life to be #thankful for: the beach, my son, Em & Poe, birds singing in trees in winter, Litsy & Littens.❤️
And how could I forget 📚!

#LilliRead #busridereading #historicalfiction #motherlove
Loving this book, narrated in diary form. Reading on a bus to Boston to meet my sister!!!

#botm #bookmail 💕💕

#buddyread
Starting this tonight-reading with my son who was assigned this book in a poli sci class.

#GratefulReads #under250pages #Day4

#NamasteNivember #orangecovers #Day4

#bookmark
Reading while hubby driving to Amherst MA. So love this bookmark @BookBabe !!!

#botmbuddyread #NovemberRoad
I am going on a family drive/hike so I will not be available for discussion today. I will check in later. So far the characters are well done, each unique in their own way. Atmosphere of New Orleans mesmerizing. Throw in a possible connection to Kennedy‘s assassination, and a woman looking for more than her small town life, and you have a compelling mix.

#Movember #RescueMe #Day3

#GratefulReads #over500pages Day3
Adore this book, my first #chunkster years ago for bookclub. #bookclubmademereadit

#NamasteNovember #SpinePoem1 #Day3

Being Mortal
A Velocity of Being
Becoming
The Long Flight Home
today we go home
To the Bright Edge if the World
Before Ever After

#sundaymorningcoffee #coffeeandbooks #lifeisabook #bookclubpick

Immersed in the life of Stella, who was born in Ieovoli, a dirt poor mountain village in Calabria, Italy. The time is pre and post WWI, when many of these desperate & destitute villagers emigrate to the U.S. At some point Stella arrives in CT, where she still resides. Although based on the author‘s grandmother‘s story & well researched, the novel is fiction.

#NamasteNovember #GratefulFor #Day2
Forever grateful for the making of memories while hiking, walking, dwelling in nature together as a family. Always grateful for my men. ❤️

#NamasteNovember #NightReading #Day1 #catsoflitsy
#Emcat #booksandcats

My #NightReading always involves my current read & Emmy.Poe joins in when my husband joins me. He reads before falling asleep too.
Tonight‘s read is November Road for #botmbuddyread

#Movember #Music #Dance
Madonna wants to “...dance with my baby/And when the music starts/I never wanna stop”
Carman, a famous flamingo dancer, ends the tagged book by stating: “I dance and dance and dance.”
@Reggie if memory serves This book was included in a very generous book exchange from you! ❤️📚💃
Music and Dance. 🎼💃

#Movember #Cherish #CherishtheLadies
Not book but music related. Enjoy this American band‘s Celtic music. They will be in Fairfield, CT for a Christmas tour 12/1 at the Edgerton Center of the Performing Arts. 🎻🎼

#olivegroves #bookclubpick
How Stella felt when she worked harvesting olives in a neighbor‘s olive grove. She loved being outdoors.

#GratefulReads #Day2 #favoritegenre
This soooo challenged me as I could not choose one favorite genre. So here is my top favorites:
📚historical fiction
📚books about books, both fiction & non-fiction.
📚memoir
📚mystery- but not thrillers (scary nightmares) both short story & novels.
📚 historical or political non-fiction.

#GratefulReads #lookingforwardtoreading #Day1
These are a few books I am looking forward to reading this month.
#buddyread #LilliRead #botmbuddyread #mybookclubpicks

#betterlatethannever #friYAYintro
1. Junk food: potato chips, chocolate🍫, french fries🍟
2. Yes to audiobooks. 🎧 #blameitonlitsy
3. Thanksgiving!!! 🍗🥔
4. It was halloween cookies at school that did me in: 4🍪🍪🍪🍪
5. Teal

#Catsoflitsy #libraryhaul
My son is reading The New Jim Crow for school. Thought a #buddyread would get me to pick this up out of my TBR.
Em & Poe are checking my books out.

#weeklyforecast #bookreport #teachersoflitsy
Did not meet my predictions for Stella Fortuna (p.180).Was glued to World Series! 🙌🏻Nationals! Read up to page 77

TKAM: met goal. Finished ch. 3. We have a class of readers this year! The discussions generated with any book we read have been stimulating & so enjoyable. These students are not afraid to share their thinking.
A Thousand Roads- did not open!!!
Garden: audiobook. On ch 13.

#saturdaymorning #coffeeandbooks #perkpetual

Perkpetual: (adj.) time it takes to brew the first pot of coffee in the morning

Stealing some reading time before the day begins.

#catsoflitsy #Emcat #audiobook #mystery #policeprocedural #London
While listening to this book today this particularlyp passage delighted me. Em & I are the only females in my household & there are times I am happy to escape the testosterone & cuddle with her. She sleeps on me & anytime I sit or lie down she appears to join in. She‘s my girl. 😻❤️

Note: This is not Em- photo fit description of the cat in the book.

#LilliRead #buddyread #NovemberRoad #Botmbuddyread
#bookmail

Look what came in the mail today. November is looking up!
❤️📚

#MyIdealBookClub
All on my TBR shelves waiting to be read.❤️📚
Tagging @MrBook @Kalalalatja @BarbaraTheBibliophage @AlwaysBeReading @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“warp and weft” for some reason the sound of these words and feel on my mouth and tongue tickles me- perfect alliteration.😛🙄😂

#coffeeandbooks #MondaynightatStorrs #UConnStarbucks
#weeklyforcast.
Easily read 54 pages tonight so far of this more than engaging read. My son takes commuter bus to UConn from Windsor 2 days a week, but Monday one of us drives him to his night class. So I have the luxury of walking, then reading from 6ish to 9. Heavenly gift.

#weeklyforcast

Such a fun idea @Cinfhen ! Especially for someone like me who rarely organizes her reading!!!

Stella Fortuna- 180 pgs. Hopefully more. A Little overwhelming to see the numbers!
TKAM- reading with 9th grad- guessing 2-3 chapters
1000 Roads Home- 40- no deadline; just easy reading when I go to sleep.
Audio- I am slow with audios- only listen while cooking, doing dishes. Lucky me, commute to work is 10 min. So maybe 3 chapters-

#sundaymorning #coffeeandbooks #bookclubpick #StellaFortuna

Starting my November bookclub pick. Went to hear this author with @CareBear and her talk sold me.

#saturdaymorning #booksandcoffee #catsoflitsy
My two chubby cherubs, Poe & Em joined me for my morning coffee.

#wonderousWednesday #itsFriday @Eggs

🍁 Joined in May, 2016
🍁 I read about it on a blog- don‘t remember what one!
🍁Always was a
voracious reader, so I read just as much but I have expanded into new genres for me. Very positive!
🍁 mystery, memoir, non-fiction, historical fiction, women authors, fiction.
🍁. @ValerieAndBooks @Suet624 @merelybookish @BookwormAHN @bookish_wookish @BarbaraTheBibliophage

Thanks for the tag @BookwormAHN

Inspector Montalbano and fellow policeman were feigning inattention while questioning someone,but really they were behaving like cats.
#catsoflitsy #policeprocedural #Sicily #folkhero #crafty

Poe was determined to prevent us from packing this suitcase & leaving him behind.Clearly he was feigning sleep & keeping an eye on us!
Enjoying this series, especially since my husband has Sicilian relatives, thanks to the recommendation of @Andrew65